Re: Why not Informix?

> management has give me the task of finding out Why not Informix? In other words, why shouldn't we Informix is extremely powerful and is at least as good as if not better than the O-word or the S-word in many (most) aspects. The performance, ease of use, tuning capababilities, utilities, etc., are all vary from good to outstanding. They do acquire excellent technology regularly and integrate it into their core products. What they *do* suffer from is less marketing than the others. I'd say you'd be crazy to change. > I'm a mainframe database administration, systems programmer type. I know very little of Informix, > Oracle, Sybase, or SQL Server. I'm not sure even where to start. What I've read about Informix, leads > me to believe that it is a viable product. I'm searching for "show stoppers" if any. Can you help? > Offer advice? Are you very happy with the product? Deliriously happy, and that after twelve years... Look, no product is perfect, but _I've_ never found anything worth changing for. FWIW, IMHO, YMMV, etc :)